{"id":207523,"date":"2025-03-01T04:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/neutron-stars-gone-wild-how-magnetars-get-their-insane-magnetic-power"},"modified":"2025-03-01T04:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:19:40","slug":"neutron-stars-gone-wild-how-magnetars-get-their-insane-magnetic-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/neutron-stars-gone-wild-how-magnetars-get-their-insane-magnetic-power","title":{"rendered":"Neutron Stars Gone Wild: How Magnetars Get Their Insane Magnetic Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutron-stars-gone-wild-how-magnetars-get-their-insane-magnetic-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star.<\/p>\n<p>A neutron star is the collapsed core of a large (between 10 and 29 solar masses) star. Neutron stars are the smallest and densest stars known to exist. Though neutron stars typically have a radius on the order of just 10 \u2014 20 kilometers (6 \u2014 12 miles), they can have masses of about 1.3 \u2014 2.5 that of the Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins. Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star. A neutron star is the collapsed core of a large (between 10 and 29 solar masses) star. Neutron stars are the smallest and densest stars known to exist. Though neutron [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}